[http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/ Enhanced CTorrent] is a BitTorrent client implemented in C++ to be lightweight and quick and is the continuation of its parent [http://ctorrent.sourceforge.net/ CTorrent].

[http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/ Enhanced CTorrent] is a BitTorrent client implemented in C++ to be lightweight and quick and is the continuation of its parent [http://ctorrent.sourceforge.net/ CTorrent].

Revision as of 22:36, 22 January 2007

Enhanced CTorrent is a BitTorrent client implemented in C++ to be lightweight and quick and is the continuation of its parent CTorrent.

Enhanced CTorrent has an average CPU load of 4.2% at a download rate of 100KB/s and an upload rate of 100KB/s on an ARM equiped Linkstation Pro.

If you are compiling in Scratchbox make sure to have libstdc++.so installed in for example /usr/lib. Either copy it from your Linkstation directly to the Scratchbox environment by using scp or install it from anywhere else.

Enhanced CTorrent has very little dependencies therefore you should be able to do a simple:

$ ./configure
$ make

Pre-built binary

CTorrent Control Server (CTCS)

To control and manage your torrents from an external computer you can make use of the Web interface provided by the CTorrent Control Server (CTCS). This is a Perl script which needs no further configuration.

Typical Setup

Make sure the binary ctorrent is available via your PATH environment varaiable.

Automatic downloading of torrents

It is very desireable to start a torrent more userfriendly at a remote machine than to manually:

Download the torrent on the remote machine to a Linkstation share.

Do a remote login to the Linkstation.

Start ctorrent with the correct command line parameters.

The idea is to create a daemon or cron'd script running on the Linkstation which checks a certain share directory for any added .torrent files. When it does find a newly added .torrent file it will invoke ctorrent with a predefined set of parameters and start downloading the torrent. This way you can start downloading a torrent simply by copying a .torrent file to a certain directory on your Linkstation.

The problems that remain to be solved for this sollution are:

The script may only invoke ctorrent when it is sure the .torrent file is completely copied over from a remote machine (we could check for a corrupted file by invoking ctorrent on the .torren file).